News in Brief Category - Page 5

Twitter is great for sending out messages in an instant, and possibly even for reporting events as they happen. But what if it’s an ongoing assault against potentially hostile individuals or facilities?

Apple has recently filed a lawsuit against Samsung for alleged patent infringement, in what seems to be a proxy attack against Google. Samsung has retaliated, filing copyright infringement cases against Apple in Germany, South Korea and Japan.

TiVo users are probably experiencing an influx of email spam recently, with the TiVo email database having been compromised. Opt-in service provider Epsilon admits a breach in which email records from TiVo and other clients have been stolen.

After donating the profits from a week-long sale on various iOS Sonic games to the Red Cross, Sega of America is putting a lot of attractive Sega merchandise and promotional items up for auction on eBay to further aid the recovery effort in Japan. Check out a video of everything [...]

The past weeks have had rumors of major US networks in talks of acquisition, including a rumored T-Mobile and Sprint merger. Now we finally have confirmation in the form of a Deutsche Telekom announcement that they are selling off T-Mobile to AT&T.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has recently made a decision on the use of the .XXX top top level domain. The XXX TLD has been approved, and the ICANN is also opening the application process for other new TLDs.

Advocates of nuclear energy have been highlighting the green benefits of nuclear power. Sure, there’s no carbon being burned, no fossil fuels being depleted, and it’s energy that lasts hundreds of years. But what if a catastrophe happens?

The Chinese government is cracking down on piracy in the region. The government recently arrested 3,001 persons involved in counterfeiting products, software, electronics, mobile phones and other items.

If you ‘wanna be a billionaire so freakin’ bad, you had better go start a Facebook.  Forbes has recently released its list of the world’s billionaires, and it includes six Facebook founders and investors.

File-sharing is surely a big deal for the record industry, as recent developments show. LimeWire, which was shut-down for its file-sharing activities, has recently settled a copyright lawsuit filed by record labels.